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Im really excited!

My first perma soak... Bester #1200, Rika #5000, Ohishi #10000. After digging through the RV which is in the back yard, I found two Shuns which I was hiding since over a year ago (one barely used, one brand new) - look for them on the BST soon! And also found a bad boy $400 kamisori straight razor I thought I lost when living on the other side of the state. Razor is gonna get sharpened tomorrow a.m. with the knives.

First set of stones for me guys, thank you for all of the advice!

Im still unsure if I should make a progression past the 10,000 grit for the edges, or even use it for the edges other than the razor collection which I have. I really want to shiny up some of my cleaver faces though...maybe then it would be worth it to look into higher grits?

Nochop, chinacats you guys talk about sandpaper, Im leary of this method, what grits do you guys use?

I start with 400 (I also have some 180 for when there are deeper scratches to be removed) and work my way up to 2k...finish with a bit of steel wool #0000 for a fairly refined finish. I think the 'proper' way is with fingerstones, but that is not something I have tried.

once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right